Elon Musk's Grok Chatbot Is Cashing In on AI Romance - Bloomberg

Elon Musk is a no-holds-barred kind of tech billionaire. So too are his new AI companions.

New AI Personalities and Character Additions

Two characters have been added this week to Grok, the chatbot developed by Musk’s company xAI, including a flirtatious girl with all the hallmarks of a manga character: enormous eyes, thigh-high fishnet stockings and an exaggerated hourglass figure. This includes Ani, a virtual anime-style assistant character featured in the Grok 4 AI chatbot.

Market Performance and Promotion

Musk spent the early hours of Wednesday promoting the character on X, pointing to how Grok was climbing the app store ranks across the world.

Character / Entity	Details and Attributes
Ani	A virtual anime-style assistant character featured in the Grok 4 AI chatbot.
Manga Character Traits	Enormous eyes, thigh-high fishnet stockings and an exaggerated hourglass figure.
Platform Performance	Climbing the app store ranks across the world.

While this expansion is significant, Grok’s new flirtatious character may be lucrative, but it only offers an illusion of intimacy.